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Regional differences in spatial flexibility : long commutes and job related migration intentions in the Netherlands

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Date
07/2009
Author
Van Ham, Maarten
Hooimeijer, P
Keywords
Commuting
Job related migration
Job access
Regional labour markets
The Netherlands
H Social Sciences (General)
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Abstract
Spatial flexibility of the workforce is important in clearing regional labour markets. Workers’ spatial flexibility is limited and many European countries are developing policies to enhance the spatial flexibility of the labour force. Using the 2002 Netherlands Housing Demand Survey and logistic regression models, this paper examines the determinants of both long commutes and intentions to migrate for a job. The results show that living in the highly urbanized western part of the Netherlands increases the probability that workers opt for long commutes. Living in the more peripheral regions increases the probability that workers think about moving residence. The results further show that workers with long commutes are more likely to have the intention to move residence in the near future than workers with short commutes. This indicates that long commutes are suboptimal at the individual level.
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Van Ham , M & Hooimeijer , P 2009 , ' Regional differences in spatial flexibility : long commutes and job related migration intentions in the Netherlands ' , Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy , vol. 2 , no. 2 , pp. 129-146 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-008-9016-2
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Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-008-9016-2
ISSN
1874-4621
Type
Journal article
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© The Author(s) 2008. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12061-008-9016-2
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7969

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